I started writing the third book in the Selene series before I realized I hadn’t finished the second one, Selene: Weal’s People. Nearly finished, but not quite.

You would be justified in wondering, how that could happen? Surely, you might ask, there’s a certain thrill in typing ‘The End’ with a flourish, and then breaking open the chocolate biscuits and a bottle dry white wine that’s hard to forget?

You would be quite right. I am, however, much more of a plotter than a pantser and while I will happily go down uncharted paths if they look better, I do tend to know how the story ends. That being the case, when I was asked to write Dragons Return (due out later this year) I left Weal’s People to write it, leaving the last four or more chapters unfinished but plotted.

Then life happened. Eventually I got back to writing and I was well into the plotting of the next book and had even started writing it when I got an email from my editor. Just a dry little note, asking where the last chapters of Weal’s People were to be found?

Welcome to Around the bend andWorlds apart blogs:

Since I write other things besides my SF series that begins with The Selene Experiment, naming my blogs didn’t come easily. I had to firmly resist my weakness for puns, and think instead about what were some of the things that I wanted to share.

I have been around a few bends in my time, of many kinds! Around the bend tells what can happen if you are open to adventure and leave the well trodden path to explore. I have encountered [Read more…]